Trade and Romance
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Asian Trade and Heroic Narrative from Marco Polo to Milton
Part 1 The Mongols
1 Marco Polo and the Marvelous Real
2 A Paradise for Killers: Marco Polo and the Garden of the Assassins
3 The Squire’s Tale: Romance as Mask
4 Morgana and Manodante: Boiardo and the Aristocratic Response to Mercantilism
Part 2 The Portuguese
5 Huon at the Castle of Adamant
6 First Encounter: The Christian-Hindu Confusion When the Portuguese Reached India
7 Camões and the Discovery of India: The Negative Side
8 Surviving Enchantment: Vasco da Gama’s First Voyage in Os Lusíadas—The Interplay between Experience and Classical Models
Part 3 The English
9 Spenser, Marlowe, and the English Search for Asian Silk
10 The Audience of The Faerie Queene
11 Waning of a Dream: A Brief History of Moscovia and Paradise Lost
12 A Wood in the Desert
Appendix 1: The Devaluation of the Squire and His Tale
Appendix 2: Henry’s Search for Spices
Appendix 3: Vergil in Camões
Bibliography
Index
American Comparative Literature Association: Rene Wellek Prize
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Sixteenth Century Studies Conference: Roland H. Bainton Book Prize
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Geography: Cultural and Historical Geography
History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature | Romance Languages
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